* Cumberland County, New South Wales, containing most of the Sydney metropolitan area

Gosford is considered an exurb of the Sydney metropolitan area, with a significant proportion of the population commuting for work or study.

Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney.

During this enquiry, the Senate of the University of Sydney put in a submission which highlighted ‘ the immediate need to establish a third university in the metropolitan area ’.

Three LGAs in outer metropolitan Sydney have populations exceeding that of towns or municipalities, but retain significant bushlands and / or semi-rural areas, have continued to use the title of ' Shire ', possibly due to community demand or popularity, or for financial and socio-political gain.

Lane Cove National Park is a small national park located within metropolitan Sydney, Australia.

The park lies within the Sydney metropolitan area and was created in piecemeal fashion during the 20th century.

Outside of the Sydney metropolitan area parks, it is the most-visited national park in New South Wales.

The newspaper shares many articles with other Fairfax Media metropolitan daily newspapers, such as The Sydney Morning Herald.

Nine is broadcast in metropolitan areas via Nine Network owned-and-operated stations, including TCN Sydney, GTV Melbourne, QTQ Brisbane and NTD Darwin, and by affiliate Channel Nine stations NWS Adelaide and STW Perth.

The South Coast railway line must go through several tunnels to reach the Sydney metropolitan area.

The City of Lake Macquarie has an estimated population of 199, 277 ( Australian Bureau of Statistics 2009 estimate ) and is the fourth largest Local Government Area in NSW by population ( the two largest, Blacktown and Sutherland, are within metropolitan Sydney while the third largest is Wollongong ).

However the tidal surge of urban sprawl which engulfed the rich flatlands west of Sydney known as the Cumberland Plain soon reached Liverpool, and it became an outer suburb of metropolitan Sydney with a strong working-class presence and manufacturing facilities.

Some isolated sections outside the Sydney metropolitan area are operated by single-deck diesel railcars.

Equine influenza ( EI ) was initially discovered in a metropolitan Sydney horse complex in late August 2007, and spread to many areas of New South Wales and southern Queensland.

Widely considered to be one of the world's finest harbours, it is known for its beauty, and in particular, as the location of the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge which connects central Sydney with the Northern Suburbs region extended metropolitan area.

For many years, St Kilda has had the highest population density in the Melbourne statistical area, and the highest for a metropolitan area outside of Sydney.

The Paralympic Torch Relay succeeded in generating community and media support for the Games, with crowds in many areas and significant crowds lining the Sydney metropolitan route in the final two days of the relay.

Ten is broadcast in metropolitan areas via Network Ten owned-and-operated stations, these include TEN Sydney, ATV Melbourne, TVQ Brisbane, ADS Adelaide, and NEW Perth.

The Australian is published by News Limited, an asset of News Corporation, which also owns the sole dailies in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin and the most popular metropolitan dailies in Sydney and Melbourne.

Rhodes has one of the last NSW Fire Brigades stations staffed by volunteers in metropolitan Sydney.

The industrial Cape Breton area faced several challenges with the closure of the Cape Breton Development Corporation's ( DEVCO ) coal mines and the Sydney Steel Corporation's ( SYSCO ) steel mill.

* City of Canterbury, New South Wales, a local government area of Sydney

Granville is located west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Parramatta.

The Sydney-Parramatta Line ran from Sydney terminus, just south from today's Central railway station to the Granville area which was originally known as ' Parramatta Junction '.

The city is the administrative centre of the Central Coast region, which is the third largest urban area in New South Wales after Sydney and Newcastle.

In Australia, particularly in Brisbane and Sydney, limited stop services are formed by commuter trains which run as limited stops or express services from the city centre to the edge of the suburban area and then as all stops in the interurban area.

The name wombat comes from the now nearly extinct Darug language spoken by the Aboriginal Darug people who originally inhabited the Sydney area.

In the UK work on the Experimental Packet Switched system circa 1973, the need to define so called higher level protocols above the HDLC link level communications protocol and the content of an NCC ( UK ) publication ' Why Distributed Computing ' resulting from considerable research into future configurations for computer systems resulted in the UK presenting the case for an International Standards Committee to cover this area at the ISO meeting in Sydney in March 1977.

* Kings Cross, New South Wales-an area of Sydney, Australia

The 2011 population of the Sydney census area, was 31, 597, making it the largest population centre on Cape Breton Island.

By the early twentieth century Sydney became home to one of the world's largest steel plants, fed by the numerous coal mines in the area under the ownership of the Dominion Coal Company.

Sydney is in an area of glacial erosion and deposition ( hence the sedimentary rock ).

The closure of the Sydney Steel Corporation's steel mill and the Cape Breton Development Corporation's coal mines in 2000-2001 have resulted in attempts by the municipal, provincial and federal governments to diversify the area economy.

The dredge, which is expected to lead to commercialization of the port, is purported to create hundreds of jobs in the area, and position Sydney as a world-class harbour facility.

The Blue Mountains Panther is a phantom cat reported in sightings in the Blue Mountains area, west of Sydney, New South Wales for over a century.

The precinct and its immediate surroundings are administered independently of the local government area of the City of Sydney, by a New South Wales state government statutory authority, the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority.

This area was the site of the Sydney Port Authority and currently features an Overseas Passenger Terminal ( Wharf 8 ) which is mainly used by the Pacific Dawn of the P & O Australia fleet and MS Sun Princess which is operated by Princess Cruises.

At one time there were four missions in the South Pacific area in Canberra, Sydney, Wellington and Suva in Fiji.

The urn arrived on 17 October 2006, going on display at the Museum of Sydney.

The 1894 – 95 series began in sensational fashion when England won the First Test at Sydney by just 10 runs having followed on.

Jack Hobbs establishing himself as England's first-choice opening batsman with three centuries, while Frank Foster ( 32 wickets at 21. 62 ) and Sydney Barnes ( 34 wickets at 22. 88 ) formed a formidable bowling partnership.

Peter May driving Bill Johnston ( cricketer ) | Bill Johnston on his way to a century at Sydney.

England went on to win the series 3 – 1, beating Australia by an innings and 83 runs at Sydney in the Fifth Test.

Adelaide was not as badly hit as the larger gold-rush cities of Sydney and Melbourne, and silver and lead discoveries at Broken Hill provided some relief.

Australian English began its development after the landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove.

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

A NSW player outmarks a West Australian opponent in the goal square at the 1933 Sydney Carnival | 1933 Australian Football Carnival at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

After some exploration Phillip decided to go on to Port Jackson, and on 26 January the marines and convicts were landed at Sydney Cove, which Phillip named after Lord Sydney.

The production returned in 2010 at the Sydney Opera House with Anthony Warlow taking on the role of Fredrik Egerman.

** Big Dipper ( Luna Park Sydney ), a wooden roller coaster operating at Luna Park Sydney from 1935 until 1981

** Cyclone ( Dreamworld ), a steel roller coaster which operated as Big Dipper at Luna Park Sydney from 1995 to 2001

This, his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, was the turning point of the series as West Indies won the final two Tests to win the series 2 – 1. Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney after scoring 277 at SCG.

The quadrangle at the centre of Smirke's design proved to be a waste of valuable space and was filled at Panizzi's request by a circular Reading Room of cast iron, designed by Smirke's brother, Sydney Smirke.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

Australia holds the first day of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the start to the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

Bliss devised Blissymbols while a refugee at the Shanghai Ghetto and Sydney, from 1942 to 1949.